Hellertown Area

The township is back on the hunt once again for another manager after its most recent hire, Sheldon Hudson, of Millsboro, Delaware, stepped down on Monday. That's the second manager hired in two months.

Former Hellertown Police Chief Robert Shupp was formally arraigned in a Northampton County court Thursday on charges of stealing from the borough, inching the case towards a trial.

Township Council on Wednesday got an idea of what 39 garden apartments and parking lots could look like in the open space across from the municipal complex on Old Philadelphia Pike.

At a nine-hour council meeting on Wednesday, Lower Saucon Township officials voted 3-2 to offer the township manager job to Sheldon Hudson, of Millsboro, Delaware, at a salary of $155,000. The previously announced new manager declined the offer.

Newly appointed Hellertown Police Chief James Baitinger pledged to "work tirelessly and make a positive difference in the lives of people we serve and the lives of our police officers."

A renewable natural gas plant adjacent to the Bethlehem Landfill opened on Tuesday morning.

The crashes were unrelated and both occurred Thursday, according to the coroner's office. Killed were a 17-year-old from Hellertown and a 34-year-old from Forks Township.

Hearings began Thursday to determine whether eight Lower Saucon Township residents, the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Bethlehem Township and St. Luke's Anderson Campus can sue to resurrect easements blocking the landfill's planned expansion.

A Hellertown man was arrested Saturday after police say he stabbed his roommate multiple times. William Vera was charged with attempted homicide and aggravated assault.

With the 79th annual Hiroshima Day — remembering the more than100,000 people killed on or following Aug. 6, 1945, after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan — one local church is set for its own period of remembrance.